Disaster Recovery Jobs with Work from Home Options

Disaster Recovery
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Disaster Recovery skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Disaster Recovery over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 220 265 343
Rank change year-on-year +45 +78 -13
Permanent jobs citing Disaster Recovery 501 525 693
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.48% 1.27% 1.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.62% 1.32% 1.04%
Number of salaries quoted 460 443 531
10th Percentile £41,229 £40,050 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £47,500 £46,735
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £59,526 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.80% -0.79% +14.29%
75th Percentile £78,750 £70,000 £73,000
90th Percentile £92,000 £86,250 £85,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,075 £57,500
% change year-on-year -0.14% -4.22% +15.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Disaster Recovery is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 30,857 39,858 66,375
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 91.38% 96.10% 96.97%
Number of salaries quoted 23,439 27,686 41,025
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%

Disaster Recovery
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Disaster Recovery as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Disaster Recovery trend for jobs with a WFH option

Disaster Recovery
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Disaster Recovery.

Disaster Recovery salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Disaster Recovery
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Disaster Recovery over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Disaster Recovery salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Disaster Recovery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 45 (8.98%) Microsoft Exchange
2 42 (8.38%) SharePoint
3 13 (2.59%) IIS
4 7 (1.40%) Apache
5 4 (0.80%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (0.80%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
6 3 (0.60%) Confluence
6 3 (0.60%) GlassFish
6 3 (0.60%) JBoss
6 3 (0.60%) Tomcat
6 3 (0.60%) WordPress
7 2 (0.40%) CMS
7 2 (0.40%) Drupal
7 2 (0.40%) Oracle Application Server
7 2 (0.40%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.20%) NetWeaver
8 1 (0.20%) Site Server
Applications
1 12 (2.40%) Microsoft Excel
1 12 (2.40%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.60%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 14 (2.79%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (1.80%) NEC Housing
3 3 (0.60%) Dynamics NAV
4 2 (0.40%) Oracle Financial Analyzer
4 2 (0.40%) SAP Business One
5 1 (0.20%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 269 (53.69%) Azure
2 118 (23.55%) Power Platform
3 109 (21.76%) Microsoft 365
4 88 (17.56%) AWS
5 64 (12.77%) GCP
6 36 (7.19%) Entra ID
7 27 (5.39%) Amazon S3
8 26 (5.19%) IaaS
9 22 (4.39%) OneDrive
10 19 (3.79%) SaaS
11 17 (3.39%) PowerApps
12 16 (3.19%) Nutanix
13 15 (2.99%) Azure DevOps
13 15 (2.99%) Cloud Computing
14 14 (2.79%) Serverless
15 13 (2.59%) Amazon EC2
16 11 (2.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 11 (2.20%) AWS Lambda
16 11 (2.20%) Power Automate
17 10 (2.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 98 (19.56%) Firewall
2 74 (14.77%) Broadband
3 71 (14.17%) DNS
4 55 (10.98%) WAN
5 44 (8.78%) DHCP
6 39 (7.78%) LAN
7 33 (6.59%) SAN
8 29 (5.79%) VPN
9 28 (5.59%) Internet
10 27 (5.39%) Wi-Fi
11 26 (5.19%) TCP/IP
12 24 (4.79%) Network Security
12 24 (4.79%) SD-WAN
13 17 (3.39%) Intrusion Detection
14 12 (2.40%) BGP
14 12 (2.40%) iSCSI
14 12 (2.40%) SNMP
15 10 (2.00%) tcpdump
15 10 (2.00%) VoIP
15 10 (2.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 153 (30.54%) SQL Server
2 105 (20.96%) Power BI
3 75 (14.97%) Azure SQL Database
4 30 (5.99%) MongoDB
5 18 (3.59%) BigQuery
5 18 (3.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 16 (3.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 14 (2.79%) MySQL
8 13 (2.59%) Data Hub
9 12 (2.40%) DB2
9 12 (2.40%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 10 (2.00%) Elasticsearch
11 9 (1.80%) Amazon RDS
12 8 (1.60%) Data Warehouse
12 8 (1.60%) Relational Database
12 8 (1.60%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 7 (1.40%) NoSQL
14 5 (1.00%) InfluxDB
15 4 (0.80%) Flink
15 4 (0.80%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 24 (4.79%) Jenkins
2 23 (4.59%) Git
3 10 (2.00%) TeamCity
4 5 (1.00%) JIRA
5 2 (0.40%) GitLab
5 2 (0.40%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.20%) Liquibase
General
1 213 (42.51%) Social Skills
2 151 (30.14%) Finance
3 58 (11.58%) Analytical Skills
4 47 (9.38%) Banking
5 35 (6.99%) Legal
6 22 (4.39%) Law
7 21 (4.19%) Telecoms
8 20 (3.99%) Financial Institution
8 20 (3.99%) Retail
9 19 (3.79%) Documentation Skills
10 17 (3.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 6 (1.20%) Advertising
11 6 (1.20%) Billing
11 6 (1.20%) Presentation Skills
12 5 (1.00%) Back Office
12 5 (1.00%) Influencing Skills
12 5 (1.00%) Manufacturing
12 5 (1.00%) Public Sector
13 2 (0.40%) Electronics
13 2 (0.40%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 104 (20.76%) DBA
2 89 (17.76%) SQL DBA
3 70 (13.97%) Senior
4 62 (12.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 43 (8.58%) Lead
6 36 (7.19%) Analyst
7 33 (6.59%) IT Manager
8 29 (5.79%) IT Engineer
9 21 (4.19%) Infrastructure Manager
9 21 (4.19%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 19 (3.79%) Support Engineer
11 17 (3.39%) Administrator
12 16 (3.19%) Network Engineer
13 15 (2.99%) Cloud Engineer
13 15 (2.99%) Technical Support
14 14 (2.79%) Consultant
14 14 (2.79%) DevOps Engineer
14 14 (2.79%) Linux Engineer
14 14 (2.79%) Resilience Manager
15 13 (2.59%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (3.59%) Kafka
1 18 (3.59%) Middleware
2 11 (2.20%) Elastic Stack
2 11 (2.20%) YAML
3 9 (1.80%) LDAP
4 5 (1.00%) .NET
4 5 (1.00%) CSS
4 5 (1.00%) HTML
4 5 (1.00%) React
5 4 (0.80%) AngularJS
5 4 (0.80%) Node.js
5 4 (0.80%) RESTful
6 3 (0.60%) SAML
7 2 (0.40%) .NET Core
7 2 (0.40%) .NET Framework
7 2 (0.40%) EDI
7 2 (0.40%) Oracle Fusion
7 2 (0.40%) Web Services
8 1 (0.20%) 802.1X
8 1 (0.20%) AWS SAM
Miscellaneous
1 58 (11.58%) Data Centre
2 49 (9.78%) Replication
3 44 (8.78%) Management Information System
4 40 (7.98%) Clustering
5 25 (4.99%) Self-Motivation
6 24 (4.79%) Cyber Threat
7 22 (4.39%) Cyberattack
8 21 (4.19%) Public Cloud
9 20 (3.99%) Data Fabric
9 20 (3.99%) PMI
10 18 (3.59%) Cloud Native
10 18 (3.59%) Security Posture
11 12 (2.40%) IoT
12 11 (2.20%) Driving Licence
13 10 (2.00%) Hybrid Cloud
14 6 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
14 6 (1.20%) Social Media
15 4 (0.80%) Enterprise Storage
15 4 (0.80%) Fat Client
15 4 (0.80%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 166 (33.13%) Windows
2 86 (17.17%) Linux
3 76 (15.17%) VMS
4 74 (14.77%) Windows Server
5 33 (6.59%) Solaris
5 33 (6.59%) Unix
6 24 (4.79%) zOS
7 22 (4.39%) Windows Server 2016
8 20 (3.99%) Windows Server 2019
9 15 (2.99%) AIX
9 15 (2.99%) Windows 10
10 12 (2.40%) CentOS
10 12 (2.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 12 (2.40%) Ubuntu
11 10 (2.00%) Oracle Linux
12 9 (1.80%) Windows Server 2012
13 3 (0.60%) Android
13 3 (0.60%) Apple iOS
14 1 (0.20%) Mac OS
14 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 147 (29.34%) High Availability
2 121 (24.15%) Performance Tuning
3 104 (20.76%) Business Intelligence
4 101 (20.16%) Business Continuity
5 89 (17.76%) Collaborative Working
5 89 (17.76%) ITIL
6 84 (16.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 76 (15.17%) Cybersecurity
8 70 (13.97%) Problem-Solving
9 68 (13.57%) DevOps
10 65 (12.97%) Agile
11 59 (11.78%) Capacity Planning
12 53 (10.58%) Mentoring
13 52 (10.38%) Information Security
14 51 (10.18%) Project Management
15 43 (8.58%) ETL
16 42 (8.38%) Decision-Making
17 41 (8.18%) Infrastructure as Code
18 39 (7.78%) Continuous Improvement
19 38 (7.58%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 135 (26.95%) SQL
2 96 (19.16%) T-SQL
3 71 (14.17%) PowerShell
4 52 (10.38%) Python
5 48 (9.58%) Bash
6 22 (4.39%) Perl
7 17 (3.39%) C#
8 12 (2.40%) PL/SQL
9 6 (1.20%) JavaScript
10 5 (1.00%) Bicep
10 5 (1.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 4 (0.80%) Java
11 4 (0.80%) VBA
12 3 (0.60%) PHP
13 2 (0.40%) ActionScript
13 2 (0.40%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.20%) ABAP
14 1 (0.20%) Delphi
14 1 (0.20%) Go
14 1 (0.20%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 93 (18.56%) Microsoft Certification
2 81 (16.17%) Degree
3 31 (6.19%) CISSP
4 22 (4.39%) PMI Certification
5 21 (4.19%) Cisco Certification
6 20 (3.99%) Computer Science Degree
7 16 (3.19%) CCNA
8 13 (2.59%) CISM
9 12 (2.40%) GIAC
9 12 (2.40%) GSEC
9 12 (2.40%) SSCP
10 9 (1.80%) ITIL Certification
10 9 (1.80%) MCSE
10 9 (1.80%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 9 (1.80%) Security Cleared
11 6 (1.20%) Azure Certification
11 6 (1.20%) CompTIA CySA+
11 6 (1.20%) CompTIA Security+
11 6 (1.20%) DBS Check
11 6 (1.20%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (8.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 27 (5.39%) SLA
3 23 (4.59%) GDPR
4 19 (3.79%) Cyber Essentials
5 16 (3.19%) Data Quality
6 9 (1.80%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 9 (1.80%) NIST
6 9 (1.80%) PCI DSS
7 6 (1.20%) ISO 22301
8 5 (1.00%) GRC
8 5 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 3 (0.60%) COBIT
9 3 (0.60%) QA
10 2 (0.40%) JSP 440
10 2 (0.40%) NIST 800
11 1 (0.20%) ISO 9001
11 1 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 127 (25.35%) Active Directory
2 115 (22.95%) Virtual Machines
3 78 (15.57%) VMware Infrastructure
4 33 (6.59%) Docker
5 27 (5.39%) Hyper-V
6 18 (3.59%) Virtual Desktop
7 12 (2.40%) Firmware
7 12 (2.40%) Virtual Servers
8 10 (2.00%) VMware ESXi
9 8 (1.60%) vSphere
10 6 (1.20%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 1 (0.20%) Ceph
11 1 (0.20%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 50 (9.98%) Terraform
2 44 (8.78%) Ansible
3 31 (6.19%) Kubernetes
4 29 (5.79%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 21 (4.19%) Microsoft Intune
6 17 (3.39%) Nagios
7 16 (3.19%) Grafana
8 13 (2.59%) HAProxy
9 12 (2.40%) Opsgenie
9 12 (2.40%) VxRail
9 12 (2.40%) ZABBIX
10 10 (2.00%) Graphite
10 10 (2.00%) Puppet
10 10 (2.00%) vCenter Server
11 7 (1.40%) Foglight
11 7 (1.40%) Microsoft Clustering
11 7 (1.40%) SCCM
12 6 (1.20%) Istio
12 6 (1.20%) WSUS
13 5 (1.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 239 (47.70%) Microsoft
2 96 (19.16%) VMware
3 44 (8.78%) Oracle
4 38 (7.58%) Cisco
5 27 (5.39%) ServiceNow
6 25 (4.99%) SolarWinds
7 20 (3.99%) Google
8 19 (3.79%) NetApp
9 18 (3.59%) Fortinet
9 18 (3.59%) IBM
9 18 (3.59%) Splunk
10 16 (3.19%) Databricks
11 15 (2.99%) F5
12 14 (2.79%) Citrix
12 14 (2.79%) HP
12 14 (2.79%) Red Hat
13 12 (2.40%) Dell
14 10 (2.00%) Serena
15 9 (1.80%) ArcSight
15 9 (1.80%) NEC